Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. To the witness, thank you for your presentation.
We have a new shipbuilding procurement strategy. We have a need for new fighter aircraft. And there is a need for an army, as well. Often the people who react very strongly to a new procurement because they don't believe we should be spending those dollars on that equipment are the same people who say that we need to protect Canadian sovereignty at all costs. The two positions, to me, are kind of mutually exclusive. They say on the one hand that they don't want to put the money into, say, 65 new F-35s, but on the other hand, God forbid if the Americans had sovereignty over our airspace or if the U.S. Navy were patrolling our coast.
How do we reconcile those two if we're going into niche capabilities? Are you talking only about expeditionary forces? Would we maintain the ability to patrol our own land, sea, and air? Or are we talking about reducing our capacity such that we're relying on our allies to do that fundamental job?